Test of a model of decision processes in an intense conflict situation

Cole, Steven G.; Phillips, James L.; Hartman, E. Alan

doi:10.1002/bs.3830220305

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“…A model of behaviour in an intense conflict situation is modelled using the theory of truels in psychological studies 16 . Some notions of equilibrium in the truels have been proposed to model political conflicts 15 .…”

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Truels and strategies for survival

Dorraki

Allison

Abbott

2019

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The truel is a three person competition that generalises the classic duel. In this game three players try to eliminate each other in a series of one-to-one duels until there is only one survivor. The players’ marksmanship, shooting order and strategies for choosing a target play a significant role in individual’s survival probability. Strategies such as shooting into the air (abstention), shooting at the strongest opponent, and shooting at the weakest opponent have been analysed in the previous literature. In this paper, for the first time, we consider suicidal and random strategies that can be chosen by the weaker player. We show that although there is no possible highest probability region for weakest player adopting suicidal strategy, the player may increase the survival probability via switching between suicidal and abstention strategies randomly. In addition, we demonstrate that there is a narrow survival area for the weakest player when the player aims randomly at two other opponents, and eventually the area fades away if the player fires randomly at himself or the other two opponents.

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Truels and strategies for survival

Dorraki

Allison

Abbott

2019

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“…The conflict theory of decision-making explains a cognitive perspective of conflict at work (Kahneman and Tversky, 1995). This theory explains situation based decision-making which may have multiple objectives of the decision maker in case of conflicts (Cole et al , 1977; Radford et al , 1994). The conflict theory of decision-making has established that in conflicts if one party also has a decisional role, then it may harm the other party as the decision makers optimize their desired outcomes by making decisions which harm other party; hence, conflicts harm.…”

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Conflicts and creative idea endorsement

Ahmad

Zhang

Saleem

et al. 2019

IJCMA

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate relationship conflicts and creative idea endorsement to develop the understanding of managerial reactions towards ideas of those who develop relationship conflicts with managers/supervisors at work. Taking a contingency perspective, the authors also investigated role subordinates’ political skills and implementation instrumentality play in determining supervisors’ endorsement of subordinates’ creative ideas. Design/methodology/approach The authors used two sources of data collected from 243 subordinates and their respective 41 supervisors of a multinational software company operating in an emerging economy (Pakistan) and analyzed the hypothesized model with Mplus using random coefficient modeling. Findings With this research, the authors contributed to management literature by investigating how the effects of relationship conflicts on creative idea endorsement depend on subordinates’ political skills and implementation instrumentality. They postulate a negative relationship between relationship conflict and creative ideas endorsement and predict that this negative relationship is augmented by subordinates’ implementation instrumentality but attenuated by subordinates’ political skills. They also give directions to decision makers in organizations that they must inform the managers/supervisors about negative effects of their relationship conflict with their subordinates and train supervisors and subordinates about reducing their relationship conflicts with each other for mutual benefits. Originality/value Organizations should take a relationship perspective when creating an environment for creativity: an environment based on mutual trust and respect so that exchange relationships can foster. With this research, the authors extended the list of potential detriment associated with relationship conflicts, that is the endorsement of creative ideas by supervisors. The authors also extended creativity literature by investigating social relationships for selection-focused creativity (idea endorsement) instead of variance-focused creativity (idea generation).

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“…1 Several applications of the duel and, more frequently, of the truel have been proposed in the above literature. The truel has been used to model behavior in confrontation situa-tions [25] and in political conflicts [26]. A truel variant has been used as a model of opinion dissemination [17].…”

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On the Nash Equilibria of a Duel with Terminal Payoffs

Kehagias

2023

Games

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We formulate and study a two-player duel game as a terminal payoffs stochastic game. Players P1,P2 are standing in place and, in every turn, each may shoot at the other (in other words, abstention is allowed). If Pn shoots Pm (m≠n), either they hit and kill them (with probability pn) or they miss and Pm is unaffected (with probability 1−pn). The process continues until at least one player dies; if no player ever dies, the game lasts an infinite number of turns. Each player receives a positive payoff upon killing their opponent and a negative payoff upon being killed. We show that the unique stationary equilibrium is for both players to always shoot at each other. In addition, we show that the game also possesses “cooperative” (i.e., non-shooting) non-stationary equilibria. We also discuss a certain similarity that the duel has to the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.

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Test of a model of decision processes in an intense conflict situation

Cited by 5 publications

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Truels and strategies for survival

Truels and strategies for survival

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On the Nash Equilibria of a Duel with Terminal Payoffs

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